dbms_output.put_line(‘NO your database can not be transported to WIndows

Platform’);

end if;

end;

/

– Make a folder to hold converted datafiles

$mkdir /home/oracle/convertdb

— Run the RMAN CONVERT DATABASE Command

The CONVERT DATABASE command specified in the example creates

– a transport script named /home/oracle/convertdb/transport.sql which contains SQL statements used to create the new database on the destination platform,

– a PFILE initnewdb.ora in file /home/oracle/convertdb for use with the new database on the destination platform, containing settings used from the source database. Several entries at the top of the PFILE should be edited when the database is moved to the destination platform

– a copy of all data files in the =/home/oracle/convertdb directory in the format of the target platform ‘Microsoft Windows IA (32-bit)